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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Stew Meat about to do at the opening to the Epilogue?
(a) Restock the shelves.
(b) Go to sleep.
(c) Close his shop for the night.
(d) Take his wife home.

2. What does Ma tell Adam when he comes to breakfast?
(a) Rowena has called him twice.
(b) He cannot go to school because he needs to help Pa.
(c) Water has been flowing all night.
(d) Polly has called him once.

3. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.
(b) To fish for his family's meals.
(c) To collect river rocks to build a pool.
(d) To haul water.

4. What does Adam doubt about Uncle Poot?
(a) That he will arrive this time since he did not last time.
(b) That he really knows anything about engineering.
(c) That he can build a better dam than Adam.
(d) That he can actually dowse for water.

5. What does Rowena realize when she thinks back to the day in Blinn's tent?
(a) That there was an instruction manual about the cards.
(b) That Blinn's eyes glowed.
(c) That there were other cards handed out.
(d) That Blinn seemed semi-transparent.

6. What happens when Polly speaks sharply?
(a) She cries.
(b) She faints.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She starts croaking.

7. When does Adam have to go back to school?
(a) The next morning.
(b) After the three-day weekend.
(c) As soon as exams start the next week.
(d) After the summer in a couple months.

8. What does Stew Meat do after he gets out his card?
(a) Gives it to Adam.
(b) Gives it to Rowena.
(c) Gives it to Polly.
(d) Makes a wish.

9. What does someone say about how the water problem might have been caused?
(a) Floods from melting snow.
(b) Magic.
(c) The dam upriver has sprung a leak.
(d) The reservoir has overflowed.

10. What kind of tree is Henry?
(a) Pine.
(b) Dogwood.
(c) Oak.
(d) Sycamore.

11. What does Sam suggest they do for Henry?
(a) Leave him alone to sulk.
(b) Make him more comfortable.
(c) Feed him some fertilizer.
(d) Notify his parents of his situation.

12. According to the title of Tale 3, Part 1, what is everywhere?
(a) Problems.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Water.

13. What does Adam learn from his father as he goes to bed?
(a) The water is almost to the top of the basement.
(b) Water is coming in the basement.
(c) The townspeople are trying to help build a sandbag wall.
(d) The water seems to be slowing.

14. About what is Adam unhappy?
(a) A fox got three hens.
(b) The chickens are not producing many eggs.
(c) The sow only had two babies.
(d) The well has gone dry.

15. What is Adam, Polly and Rowena's mental state?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Angry.
(c) Excited.
(d) Jovial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Rowena unable to go anywhere?

2. Who is the first person narrator in the Epilogue?

3. What does Pa say when he comes in from the cornfield?

4. What does Stew Meat realize?

5. What is Henry's condition when Rowena checks on him after getting home?

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